skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If a corporation has a million shareholders that can each spend $2000, that is a hell of a lot of political donation.

That corporation is not going to get permission from all million shareholders to completely use up their entire contribution limit.
Hmm you mean X right?
Then a better title would have been:

How Bad Is Link Rot on brainbaking.com?
Wish I had the rep to downvote a comment,

> you can always give away the kid

a child is not a goddamn pet or a commodity that you can just give away

> In some countries you can even sell your kids, but it is frowned upon in many Western societies

A common country where that happens is Pakistan/Afghanistan where young boys are sold to be prostitutes. I am GLAD it's frowned upon as it should be everywhere in the modern world.

> fostering is the trial run you are looking for

Again, children are not pets, fostering is the same as raising a biological child, if you're doing it any different and treating the child differently, in my opinion, it's tantamount to child abuse.

Frankly this comment lacks any humanity, and hopefully you choose not to have or foster children.
CEOs aren't paid for they're labor (as if they're even capable of labor!). They're paid to be a liable wad of meat.
One can apply the exact same logic to free trade.
Most of the strange things in the software business can be explained by the combination of

1. susceptibility to fads

2. path dependency,

or, to borrow a term from evolutionary biology, punctuated equilibrium.
" a good programmer should organize software in such a way that every piece of code has a clear and logical place. The organization should be so intuitive that anyone could build a mental model of the structure and navigate it easily, even without seeing it." sounds like very good advice to me. In the mid to late 1990s I worked somewhere that tried to do this with a big C++ codebase, because we didn't have IDEs (vi wasn't even vim at the time), unless you count emacs which some people were good at, not me at the time. I believe that IDEs are in many ways a backward step ,because they allow people to develop lazy habits and make a hideous sloppy mess of meaninglessly-named spaghetti, knowing that there's autocomplete and advanced search functionality.
As usual, journalists write clickbait titles. The quantum geometric tensor has not been measured for the first time. Perhaps it’s a novel way to measure it in a crystal, but certainly it’s a very well known concept in quantum physics. I’ve worked with it too to perform natural gradient descent on the space of quantum states.
Related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38249527
I mean, I'm a Japanese native running an accelerated English emulator with master Mandarin and/or Russian on bucket list, so, what do I say...
Typically yeah, but when you're trying to make it work at all it can be easy to forget to add a bit of a gradient towards "winning sooner is better". And this happens even at the top level, the example I was thinking about as I typed that was one of the AlphaGo exhibition games against Lee Sedol (the first, maybe?) where it got into a crushing position then seemingly messed around.
I honestly think the majority of the difficulty is that we live so far from one another.

In school, or college, it was easier to be in proximity to other people which is just not possible as an adult.
If you're looking for a native alternative to TypingMind you can join the waitlist for something I'm working on: https://www.get-vox.com
Can this plugin work for Chrome on Android? Does anyone have a recommendation for bookmarking and/or webclips on Android?
God my teeth wish i had just stopped drinking soda a decade ago. It wasnt even that hard to kick
Chores are a great way to make you feel a sense of purpose. You can directly observe the fruits of your labor. Your kitchen is shinier after a deep clean. Your baby is no longer crying of hunger after a feeding. The same can't be said for scrolling through TikTok for hours or even a lot of employment. Sure your livelihood may depend on moving items from big boxes into little boxes, but it's hard to feel any sort of accomplishment for that.
Dogs are a chore. Cats too. Oh well.
This comment should not be greyed out. See the Buffett Bet [1] for the most famous example of this.

Warren Buffet bet a million against Ted Seides (head of Protege at the time) that a simple index fund investment would outperform any handpicked selection of hedge funds over a decade. And critically this bet was made in 2008 just before the market crashed! That's when hedge funds should disproportionately shine, as per their name, by hedging. In the end it wasn't even close.

[1] - https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/030916/buffe...
Tritium begs to differ.
NYC Street Photography [video]
For me, over time, it's been primarily common outdoor interests. Though it doesn't have to be outdoor interests specifically.
This is the first time I heard of Dupe photos: https://dupephotos.com/ , they look more amateur but feel more human.
What makes this particularly egregious is the comment defending Claude and bashing Gemini was generated by ChatGPT
Four Masted Barque Rounding Cape Horn 1928 – Captain Irving [video]
> How microservices are still a default systems design architecture in anything but the largest orgs still puzzles me.

A system that's made out of smaller single-purpose programs that are all made to be composable and talk to each over a standard interface, is not exactly an unproven idea.
It's more a lesson about the dangers of transferring an objectively true statement:

"MuZero can beat any professional Go player"

to a squishy but not false statement:

"MuZero is an AI which is superhuman at Go"

to a statement which is basically wrong:

"MuZero has superhuman intelligence in the domain of Go."
but lead tastes yummy :(
I've made more friends more easily in my 40s than any other time in my life, and I'm a relatively quiet and disagreeable person.

Making connections with people you're around frequently is easy. The problem is that adult life doesn't throw you into those situations post-college outside of work.

Now it's on you. Find a group. Sports are the easiest. You will absolutely make strong, long lasting friendships if you play sports. It doesn't matter if you're athletic or talented.

You just gotta show up and see the same people every week over and over. If you're a reasonably well adjusted person (and even that sometimes doesn't matter) you will make friends.

Again, making connections and friends is easy. Being around the same people regularly is difficult. Solve that problem and the friendships will come with little effort.

I have found that people generally understand the value of friendship and are welcoming to newcomers. It's been a very refreshing surprise as I've gotten older.

Get out there!
System Design for Beginners: Everything You Need in One Article
I've taken comfort in the thought that there are millions of people much more clever than me. If they have not figured out how to game the market there's no chance I will.

So I don't even try.
It seems that the American efforts were the victims of disinformation rather than the instigators. They were started after reports that the Soviets were already engaged in such research.
Another great Dijkstra essay:

On the foolishness of "natural language programming".

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667...
I plan on adding this feature!
At least right now it can't. It makes a lot of mistakes. It is useful to write the code and then you just need to fix the stuff it didn't do right.
I always view it as a very good sign when senior leadership is aware of Conway’s Law.
Generalizing all humans experiencing difficulty socializing as adults as lazy is an oversimplification at best.
Look what Ancient Rome accomplished with lead pipes
The difference is very minor when interoperating with methods, but the performance gains of this dual string system are often worth it.

&str is basically a C string allocated on the stack while String is like a Java string, an object on the heap with a reference to a raw string hidden from plain sight. To avoid unnecessary and unintended allocations and other expensive memory operations, operating on &str is usually preferred for performance reasons.

String almost transparently casts down to &str so in practice you rarely care about the difference when calling library code.

If you're coming from a language that doesn't have a distinction between character arrays and string objects, you're probably fine just using &str.

If you're coming from a higher level language like JS or Python, you're probably used to paying the performance price for heap allocation anyway so you might as well use String in Rust as well and only start caring when performance is affected.
Not so encouraging. This paper will just be used to incorporate defense against adversarial strategies in Go playing AIs. A simple curiosity, but one reflective of the greater state of affairs in AI development which is rather dismal.
I don't code a lot, an when I do it's PHP, HTML, JS, CSS, or Python, and I still just use nano.
https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/en/switzerland-in-3d

> Switzerland is one of the first countries to possess a detailed 3D buildings model covering the whole country. This digital model of Switzerland consists of approx. 70 million 3D objects. Besides every single building in Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein, bridges, cable cars, forests, individual trees and geographical names are also represented in 3D. Two movement modes enable interactive navigation through space. Discover digital Switzerland from the air in flight mode or take a virtual stroll around a 3D model of your own village or neighbourhood.
Yes, definitely. Pi is just the perimeter of the circle, and varpi is the perimeter of the lemniscate. If you use three points, you get three tear-drops, and you can compute the perimeter of that.

Let’s call it a trilemniscate. ;)

Here’s a 3d plot of it. If you rotate to view it from +Z downward, then you’ll see the trilemniscate, which is where the volume intersects with the XY plane. Note I subtracted 1 from the product in order to visualize the plane intersection. (And you can turn off the 3 points version and turn on the 2 points version to compare.)

https://www.desmos.com/3d/dl9v2vqbqb

One interesting note about 2 points vs 3 points. The area inside the lemniscate and trilemniscate is the same! (True for more points, as long as they’re evenly space on a circle). The perimeter, of course, goes to infinity as you add more points.
I reason the same way with explicit typing.
>In school, or college, it was easier to be in proximity to other people which is just not possible as an adult.

I think it is more that you made friends with people that already lived near you (ie the kids going to your school). As adults, the only people that match a similar profile are your work colleagues but adults tend be more closed off to making friends. In some cultures, it is still easy but north european cultures seem to make it so that when you reach some age you close off to new people.
This seems to always be the issue, the visceral experiencing of prices now at the cash register versus long term effects.

“But if Walmart’s example reveals anything, it is that, in the long term, low prices can have costs of their own.”

The scale of corporation can pull many levers in the pursuit of profit and can have longer vision because it has economic means to persist, the individual consumer is weak and short sighted in comparison, always.
I've already seen cookies in the store that are praised as containing an "oat based chocolate alternative", as if replacing cocoa was something anyone asked for.

That led me down a rabbit hole of food substitutes in the German Democratic Republic. They didn't have the resources of the west so they started replacing all kind of ingredients. This went as far as putting fish meal into chocolate.
There are structural changes that make it much easier to convert trading into gambling. Feeless trades and easy access to margin accounts and more advanced vehicles means that you can easily make dozens of high risk trades in a single day.
Ask HN: How can you grow your user base without ads
In YC, their advice is to grow your user base without using ads. For B2C what sort of channel can you use to grow your user base?

Reddit, Facebook groups, SEO. Anything else I might be missing?
I have tried to grow my user on reddit and facebook group but it’s kinda hard. Both of the channel does not really like self promotion.
Looks as though it's not currently in effect, however?

https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/issues/761

What a trite cat-and-mouse game, though at least it's entertaining to watch them try.
You are correct. You just need to beat inflation. (So 27% vs. 2.7%? Pretty sure anyone can be a Wall Street wolf these days.)
I have a weird hypothesis about the “worse is better” phenomenon which is what I think he’s getting at.

In back office / cloud / IT type stuff I wonder if complex things like Kubernetes win over simpler approaches precisely because they are more expensive and labor intensive. As a result of being labor intensive they pick up more users who after investing in climbing their learning curve become champions. Simpler or more “fire and forget” systems require less labor and so win fewer converts.
Most of the social protections and regulations underpinning life in the 'developed world' came about due to the horrors of the Great Depression and World War II. States knew that without a social safety net, availability of jobs and housing, national unity would be impossible to have, especially with an expansionist Soviet Union next door.

All of these lessons are being rapidly forgotten. Casino capitalism wrecked people's retirements in 2008. Almost 2 decades on, housing costs are out of control for millions of working people, because private equity can buy homes with cash at 0%, while families have to show all sorts of creditworthiness for the privilege of paying 6%.

On top of that, businesses that are already profitable (Google/FB, oil and gas, banks) are now charging even more because they can get away with it.
The Year I Healed My Schizophrenia (YouTube) [video]
I'm an old school programmer - built my first 8-bit home computer in 1978, and been programming ever since (currently Linux/C++ telecom - heavy multi-threading).

There are tools like ctags that have been around forever and build an index of definitions to let you jump to them, but personally I've never found a use for it, anymore than I ever found a utility for IDEs. I just have multiple terminal windows (or tabs) open along with my editor (emacs).

When I'm deep into a project - even a very large one, I basically just remember where everything is (as well as the code itself), or when needed just use terminal find/grep. For stuff I've written from scratch myself (vs at work working on a large legacy codebase), code organization is certainly part of it - organizing code into file-based modules. I use record/playback editor macros a lot to avoid typing, and occasionally use sed (scriptable Linux command line editor) to perform entire codebase renames etc.

I've tried modern IDEs like VS Code, but really don't find them to be a productivity benefit. I get the appeal of a single tool/environment that does it all (like old-school hard-core emacs folks who treat it as an IDE), but in terms of productivity you can work just as fast with a collection of tools rather than a single one.
According to the abstract, "The core vulnerability uncovered by our attack persists even in KataGo agents adversarially trained to defend against our attack."
> oat based chocolate alternative

Are you sure the oat is replacing cocoa in the chocolate and not milk?
sounds like he had a hobby.
> I honestly think the majority of the difficulty is that we live so far from one another.

This sound correct for some people, but I'm not sure if it's the majority.

Right now I live in a town with ~20,000 people, feels like I cannot go outside without people around me and there are constant regular events being done.

I grew up on a island with ~700 people, and even there you were not really alone unless you were out in the forest. Even that place regularly had events organized by people.

Besides, I'm guessing most people in the world live in or close to metropolitan areas, and there certainly there isn't any problem of "live so far from one another", but maybe the opposite problem.
People buying LLM services to combat a problem other people created by buying LLM services, incentivizing the latter to try harder by buying more LLM services? A perfect vicious circle. The LLM providers will surely be laughing all the way to the bank.
I do wordpress dev at the moment and there are some blade template and I don't know how use autocomplete/LSP to hunt down functions/methods used in blade templates.

Makes me sad :(.

At least xdebug works.
> The plus side is that the output is exceptionally incompetent.

It won't be for long. This is reminiscent of the development of the first rifles, which often jammed or misfired, and weren't very accurate to a long range. Now look at weapons like a Barrett .50 cal sniper rifle -- that's what AI will look like in 10 years.
The "need of larger teams" does not justify to delegate the core of the technical interfaces to a grotesquely and absurdely complex and gigantic computer language with its compiler (probably very few real life ones).

This is accute lack of perspective, border-line fraud.
"Alcohol" has a very interesting etymology, too.
Broad brushstrokes incoming and pure speculation but I wrote it out anyway…

Today’s youth are more proactive with their identities these days than we were. We were and remain reactive with our identities. That preference influences what triggers the dopamine hits needed for life.

The drugs of a reactive identity culture are sugar, alcohol, narcotics, work, anything that’s a trope in movies made by boomers. These drugs have consequences that shape the user’s identity. For example: weight gain or burnout.

But the drugs of a proactive identity culture are those that drive the person’s perception of their identity. The live ahead of the consequences. Things like digital social networks, status symbols like shoes, colleges, or jobs, and anything that drives success in those status symbols. Example: Adderall helps the user study, which helps the user get better grades, which opens the door to a better college, which allows the user to flaunt that college association as part of their identity. That doesn’t mean there aren’t consequences to those drugs but those consequences aren’t tropes of modern life just yet because we’re still normalizing their outcomes.

All of this to say: sodas aren’t their thing because soda is “unhealthy” and that drags on their identity.
I've taken close to three years off so far. I took my time off to hack the hardest problem of my entire life - finding someone to get married to. For some of you, this was trivial and you met your spouse in college, arranged marriage, or whatever. Unfortunately, I've had the most difficult time of any neurotypical person I've ever met due to my physical shortcomings.

I've traveled the world, lived in NYC extensively, and spent enough hours in the gym where that $10,000/month membership at Continuum sounded reasonable. I am trying my best to down a protein bar as I write this post even though it tastes like minty dirt. I don't pay $10k - my current gym membership is only $420/month. Although, I did have 3 gym memberships at one point and did utilize each fully.

Was/Is it worth it? I don't know. I'm still single but I know that I would 100% still be single if I stayed working back in SV. It's hard to even find a job outside of SV due to my heavily startup focused resume. (Very much a 0 to 1 resume) I've mostly accepted that I will just have to focus on career when I get back to SV. I have plenty of money still but I've learned my body has a limit of two hours of hard exercise everyday. Due to that, I am considering going back to work but I spent a month in SV this year and it was absolutely miserable on the dating front. It was completely pointless. So, if I move back, I will have to be traveling very long distances a lot to meet any women.

As far as resume/career/etc impact. I have a very focused startup background. It has had little impact. In SV, it's extremely typical for people to take sabbaticals and I think due to the down market in tech - it's very common right now. I don't tell people I was wife searching though cause that sounds absolutely crazy. If I wanted a job, I'd have it. I'm in team match with some big companies right now but due to my focus on only wanting to join NYC - they can't find me a spot. If I was open to SV, I'd be matched very quickly.
> My wife has a lot of friends. They go on walks together, have regular Ladies Lunches were they try different restaurants in the area. I've become friends with some of the other husbands when we do things together as couples. Everything from movies, to holiday parties, to escape rooms, to board game nights (party games), to murder mystery dinners, etc.

The problem with latching to your wife's social network is that they might end remaining your wife's friends as opposed to your friends. Especially if you only see each other in the context of "my wife's friend". It is a very common pattern. And then if you ever break up with your wife, she is gone and so are her friends.

Learning to make friends on your own is a valuable skill.
I don't think that's exactly what they were saying. I read it more like "people who divide life into work-that-you-should-pour-your-energy-into and recovery-where-you-try-not-to-spend-energy", and that maybe we should pour less of our energy into work and use that energy for socialising (which can result in an overall net energy gain).
That doesn't normalize the URL nor does it handle relative URL joining logic. It also doesn't handle URLs like: `file:///foo.txt`
This is exactly why it's a bad thing in general to have a single metric or small group of metrics that can be optimized. It always leads to bad actors using technical tools to game them. But we keep making the same mistake.
The difference between what cocoa farmers get paid vs what chocolate companies make selling their product is so enormous that I find this article incredibly offensive. But the chocolate industry has a very long history of this kind of shameless exploitation.
Yo, everyone's interpreting parent's comment in the worst way possible: assuming they're trying to do unsound refactorings. There are plenty of places where a refactoring is fine, but the rust analyzer simply can't verify the change (async `FnOnce` for instance) gives up and forces the user to work around it.

I love Rust (comparatively) but yes, this is a thing, and it's bad.
If you are trying overly hard to abstract things or work against that language, then yes, things can be difficult to refactor. Here's a few things I've found:

- Generics

- Too much Send + Sync

- Trying too hard to avoid cloning

- Writing code in an object oriented way instead of a data oriented way

Most of these have to do with optimizing too early. It's better to leave the more complex stuff to library authors or wait until your data model has settled.
> Trading isn’t just something “some people” do—it’s turning into a thriving industry where regular folks are learning the ropes and doing well for themselves.

Said every forex / options / crypto course seller ever.

Anybody remember the "Day Trade your way out of Debt" late night infomercials in the '90s?
This happen with IDE people too, and even more often with LSP people. Too many people take what the tooling say as gospel instead of taking the time to get an understanding of what they are doing.
Not in 10 years when the contributions become more sophisticated. Like many other scenarios of this time, it's an arms race.
Get onto the #lobsters irc channel on libera, hang out for a while and you eventually will get an invite
quickjs or similar. Namely, small depending on a reasonable SDK (which does include the computer language).